Labor Market Effects of Technology Shocks biased toward the Traded Sector

Bertinelli, Luisito and Cardi, Olivier and Restout, Romain (2022) Labor Market Effects of Technology Shocks biased toward the Traded Sector. Journal of International Economics, 138: 103645. ISSN 0022-1996

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Abstract

Our VAR evidence for OECD countries reveals that the non-traded sector alone drives the increase in hours worked following a technology shock that increases permanently traded relative to non-traded TFP. The shock generates a reallocation of labor toward the non-traded sector which contributes to 35% of the rise in non-traded hours worked. Both labor reallocation and variations in labor income shares are found empirically connected with factor-biased technological change. Our quantitative analysis shows that a two-sector open economy model with flexible prices can reproduce the labor market effects we document empirically once we allow for imperfect mobility of labor, a demand for home-produced traded goods which is elastic enough w.r.t. the terms of trade, and factor-biased technological change. When calibrating the model to country-specific data, its ability to account for the cross-country reallocation and redistributive effects we estimate increases once we let factor-biased technological change vary between sectors and countries.

Item Type:
Journal Article
Journal or Publication Title:
Journal of International Economics
Uncontrolled Keywords:
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Subjects:
?? sector-biased technology shocksfactor-augmenting efficiencyopen economylabor reallocationces production functionlabor income sharefinanceeconomics and econometrics ??
ID Code:
172668
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Deposited On:
17 Aug 2022 16:00
Refereed?:
Yes
Published?:
Published
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